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Vitis flexuosa

Botanic Family

Vitaceae

Author

Thunberg

Common Names

• Ge lei pu tao (Pinyin)
• Pureni (Nepali)
• Gongap (Tamang)
• Sankaku-zuru (Japan)
• Gyōja-no-mizu (Japan)

Geographical Habitats

• Anhui
• Fujian
• Gansu
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Henan
• Hubei
• Hunan
• Jiangsu
• Jiangxi
• Shaanxi
• Shandong
• Sichuan
• Taiwan
• Yunnan
• Zhejiang - China
• India
• Java - Indonesia
• Amami-Oshima
• Honshu
• Kyushu
• Shikoku - Japan
• Korea
• Himalaya
• Laos
• Nepal
• Philippines
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Shrubland
• woodland
• forest
• cultivated areas
• montane areas
• moist open places

Flowering Times

• Apr to May
• Mar-May (China)
• May-Jun (Japan)

Fruiting Times

• Jun to Aug
• Jul-Nov (China)

Woody glabrous tendril liana with bifurcate tendrils, ridged branchlets & 3-lobed truncataserrated leaves to 100mm x 80mm, toothed & villous on veins beneath and with axillary tufts of hairs or glabrous. Leaf-opposed glabrescent panicles, thyrses or racemes to 120mm of yellowish flowers, 5 petals. Fruit a black tinged blue-black berry to 10mm diameter.

Further References

• Rehder 1934
• Bean 1950
• Bailey 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• Manandhar 2002
• FOC
• GWC 1997
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• JAA
• FOJ